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New Technique Offers Exacting Hair Implant Results

Posted on April 7, 2010
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Believe it or not, hair implants have been used as a way to treat the baldness associated with male pattern baldness since the 1950’s.  But they were originally developed in the 1930’s to treat facial hair problems.  In particular, women who desired different shaped eyebrows often had eyebrow implants surgery.  This early work was done in Japan by a few pioneering surgeons but unfortunately it was stopped during the War.  After the War the balding problems of men took precedence over the needs of women.

The results were really not great with the baldness therapy which came to be known as “hair plugs.”  Part of the reason for this name came from how the resulting hair transplantation results looked.  A round plug of scalp with hairs would be removed from the back of the scalp and then inserted into an incision in the bald area.  The resulting hair growth stuck out every which way and looked like the artificial hair that is plugged into a cheap dolls head.  Most of the men looked like they had stuck their finger in a light socket.

This has all changed now with FUE hair transplantation which is the shortened name of the procedure known as Follicular Unit Extraction.  With this method no cutting of the scalp is required.  Instead, each individual hair follicle with its shaft and support structure is removed directly from the skin on the head.  This is accomplished with a patented surgical instrument which the hair restoration surgeon is trained with.  Because there is no cutting there is no scarring which is nice but a more important benefit is the ability of the doctor to place the hairs exactly where he or she wants them.

By manipulating each individual hair follicle, the surgeon can place the hair in the exact spot to match the direction of growth of the surrounding hair.  This looks very natural and gives an appearance of hair that belongs where it is growing instead of the out of place look with the old procedure.

If you are going bald you owe it to yourself to look into FUE hair transplants.

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